Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. French sales outfit Alpha Violet has acquired the rights for Algerian horror film “Roqia,” written and directed by Yanis Koussim, ...

Algerian director Merzak Allouache received the Variety International Vanguard Director Award at the Red Sea Film Festival over the weekend, prior to the premiere of his social comedy, “Front Row,” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Best Friend Forever has acquired international rights to emerging director Dania Reymond-Boughenou’s debut feature “Silent Storms, ...

British songwriter and stylist Robyn Hitchcock (left) and filmmaker/musician/writer Boots Riley are the two headliners for the Free State Festival, the Lawrence Arts Center announced Thursday. This ...

In French-ruled Algeria, Frantz Fanon was a psychiatrist and an active member of the National Liberation Front. A new movie portrays his commitment to the anti-colonial struggle. Behind a locked door, ...

Legendary Algerian film-maker Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina has passed away at the age of 91. He is most commonly remembered as the first (and only) African to win the coveted Palme d’Or prize at the Cannes ...

Algerian cinema is in search of a revival, decades after its 1970s heyday and steep decline, with authorities having blown hot and cold in their support. Today, the country counts only a few dozen ...

Algerian director Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, whose 1975 drama Chronicles of the Years of Fire remains Africa’s only Cannes Palme d’Or to this day, has died at the age of 91. Lakhdar-Hamina’s family said ...

These are the first images shot in the ALN maquis, camera in hand, at the end of 1956 and in 1957. These war images taken in the Aurès-Nementchas are intended to be the basis of a dialogue between ...

CANNES, France (Reuters) - A film on the bloody fight for Algerian independence opened amid heightened police security in Cannes on Friday as demonstrators outside protested that it sullied the memory ...